File Under: “Wes Hazard Can Never Run for President”

From the 3/17/14 edition of The Encyclopedia Show Somerville. The theme of the show was “Explorers”. Throughout the evening we were gradually being “colonized” by representatives from The Encyclopedia Show Washington D.C. I was brought out to try and instill some cross-cultural understanding between the two camps, and I of course turned to the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas for inspiration. You can decide for yourselves on how effective you think it was.

P.S. My class chorus sang this song at an assembly in elementary school and my mom still talks about how the performance brought tears to her eyes. She’ll probably cry at this one too, for different reasons.